A Facebook campaign has forced the makers of Pears Transparent Soap to abandon a new recipe after claims the formula 'smells and feels disgusting'. Customers criticised the addition of chemicals to ...

STRETCHING the equity of its glycerine-based winter care brand - Pears, into the kids segment, HLL has decided to float a new variant - Pears Junior. The company has decided to bridge the gap in the ...

The soap, the world's oldest brand, recently changed its formula - trebling the number of ingredients used - and making it 'smell and feel disgusting', according to some users. A Facebook group ...

In 1789 Andrew Pears set up a factory just off Oxford Street in London to produce and sell soap and cosmetic products. Pears began to experiment with the purification of soap, and was able to produce ...

I’d guess that in my bathroom, there’s more than £500 worth of skincare. As someone who grew up with incredibly sensitive skin, my mum always instilled in me that good beauty products are worth ...

Is there any soap as distinctive in appearance and smell as Pears? The brand was invented in 1789 by Andrew Pears, the son of a Cornish miner who travelled to London to seek his fortune. There he ...

An original painting on Victorian England is for sale at Bonhams 19th Century Paintings sale in London on 11 July. "Captain of the Eleven" painted in 1882 became a lasting and much loved symbol of ...